“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

I had this as my email signature for wayyy longer than I should have after reading Fight Club while in high school.

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• "That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse." – Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) – 15 other disheartening quotes in the post text.
• "What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven." – Chuck Palahniuk

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading…" – Haruki Murakami

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• “We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!” ― John Waters
• “Luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.” — Daphne du Maurier
• “A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.” – Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones.
• "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." – Heinrich Heine in 1823
• "Instead of sending weapons to Afghanistan…send books." ~ Malala Yousafzai OC

‎"As you’re reading this, your life is getting shorter…" Mike Litman

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• "You can’t start the next chapter of your life…" -Unknown
• "To know what life is worth…" – Sartre OC
• "In the book of life…" – Charles M. Schulz
• "Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend the rest of its life believing it is stupid." -Albert Einstein
• "To know what life is worth…" – Sartre OC

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you." Alan Bennett

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• You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one. — Anonymous
• "The reading of all good books…" -Descartes
• "The best moments in reading are when you come across something…" – Hector, The History Boys OC
• "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." – Will Rogers
• "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." -Franz Kafka

"Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person"

• Compliments of r/books

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• “ Lost money can be re-earned. Lost time can be clawed back. Lost love reignited. Lost integrity is unrecoverable. ” ~ Author Unknown
• "Why is it that when you take advantage of a tax break for a corporation you are a good business person but when you take advantage of something that you need to not be hungry you’re a moocher" – Jon Stewart
• "And God said, ‘love thy enemy’, so I obeyed him and loved myself." – Kahlil Gibran
• “I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.” -Ender, Ender’s Game
• The sausage principle: ‘If you love something, never find out how it’s made’ John Oliver

"Seeing someone reading a book you love …" – Unknown

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• People don’t like love, they like that flittery flirty feeling. They don’t love love – love is sacrificial, love is ferocious, it’s not emotive. Our culture doesn’t love love, it loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without paying anything for it. It’s ridiculous. – Matt Chandler…
• "If you could love the wrong one so much, imagine how much you will love the right one."-Unknown
• "Nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best."
• "Oh Christ I just wanted you to fuck me and then I became greedy, I wanted you to love me." Tracey Emin
• The type of person I want to be.

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." -Ray Bradbury

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• "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• "Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore." – Ray Bradbury
• "Looking back…" Ray Bradbury
• "Looking back…" Ray Bradbury
• "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center." -Kurt Vonnegut (Player Piano)

"The first thing reading teaches us is how to be alone." -Jonathan Franzen

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• "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." – Henry David Thoreau
• "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation."
• "Cattle die, kindred die, Every man is mortal: But the good name never dies Of one who has done well. Cattle die, kindred die, Every man is mortal: But I know one thing that never dies, The glory of the great dead." The vikings were wise…
• “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins – Bob…
• We’re born alone… – Bill Murray OC

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." –Haruki Murakami

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• "If you just hear people that think like you do, you’re going to end up foolish" – Cass Sunstein
• "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner." -Lao Tzu
• "When I’m lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death, and neither one particularly appeals to me" – Morrissey
• "If I like chocolate it won’t surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I’ve got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you’d think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money…" — John Cleese
• "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" – Friedrich Nietzsche ()

…the ruins of feudal society…" Karl Marx. Essential reading

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• "Experience acclaims as happiest…" – Karl Marx OC
• "Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society … When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think." – Noam Chomsky
• "In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
• "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." – James Baldwin